| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.09.2024 | DeepOpinion's €11M Funding: A Leap into the Future of Claims Automation | In a world where disasters strike like lightning, the aftermath can leave chaos in its wake. The insurance industry often finds itself drowning in a deluge of claims, especially after catastrophic events. Enter DeepOpinion, an Austrian star... |
| 26.09.2024 | DeepOpinion Raises €11M for AI-driven disaster claims automation | DeepOpinion, an Austrian startup specialising in enterprise agentic process automation, has raised €11 million in a Series A funding round.
The company's technology uses advanced AI agents to automate complex, knowledge-intensive tasks in b... |
| 26.09.2024 | DeepOpinion Raises €11M in Funding | DeepOpinion, an Innsbruck, Austria-based startup specializing in enterprise agentic process automation, raised €11M in funding.
The round was led by Red River West and AIpha Intelligence Capital, with participation from existing backers Lun... |
| 02.07.2024 | Innovations That Are Driving Funds Into The Recycling Sector With its rapidly growing population, burgeoning cities, and rising economy, India faces significant challenges in managing its waste, espec... | With its rapidly growing population, burgeoning cities, and rising economy, India faces significant challenges in managing its waste, especially from its urban centers. As urbanization intensifies in the country, so does the generation of w... |
| 26.06.2024 | Zyod: Transforming the Fashion Industry with Innovation and Vision | Zyod, a forward-thinking business-to-business fashion platform, has recently secured a substantial $18 million in funding to fuel its ambitious expansion plans across the global fashion landscape. Led by the esteemed RTP Global, this signif... |
| 25.06.2024 | Fashion Startup ZYOD Raises USD 18 Mn to Enter 40 New Countries The Gurugram-based startup aims to deploy the raised funds for geographical expansion to 40 new countries. A portion of the funds will a... | Apparel manufacturing startup ZYOD has secured USD 18 million in a Series A round led by RTP Global and also saw participation from existing investors Lightspeed and Alteria Capital and new investors Stride Ventures, Stride One, and Trifect... |
| 13.06.2024 | 13 UK-Based VCs Invested in 15 Romanian Startups, with Seedcamp Leading in Deals | Romania, UK ~
Company:
UK/Romania Business, in cooperation with CMS, Endeavor Romania and How to Web, published their “Technology Report: Understanding and Advancing the UK/Romania Opportunity”.
The report, launched yesterday at the Palace ... |
| 07.06.2024 | Hero MotoCorp invests ₹124 cr to pick up 2.2% additional stake in Ather Energy | Two-wheeler major Hero MotoCorp has invested ₹124 crore in electric scooter maker Ather Energy to pick up a further 2.2 per cent stake.
With the funding, Hero MotoCorp, which was the largest shareholder in Ather Energy, now holds nearly 39 ... |
| 04.06.2024 | Digital lending platform Lendingkart raised Rs 100 Cr debt from Stride Ventures | Digital lending platform Lendingkart, which caters to small and medium-sized businesses, has obtained debt of Rs 100 crore ($12 million) and equity of Rs 8 crore (almost $1 million) from Stride Ventures. The Ahmedabad-based company has clos... |
| 03.06.2024 | Ather Energy Closes USD 34.5 Mn Funding Round with Support from Co-Founders, Stride Ventures Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain, the co-founders of the Bengaluru-based company, have contributed around INR 4... | - |
| 01.06.2024 | Ather Energy's Electric Ride to Funding Success | Ather Energy, the electric scooter manufacturer, recently secured a hefty $34.5 million in debt and equity funding. This funding round marks a significant milestone for the Bengaluru-based company, as it gears up for potential unicorn statu... |
| 31.05.2024 | Ather Energy raises Rs 286 crore from founders and Stride Ventures | AgenciesTarun Mehta, cofounder and CEO, Ather Energy
Electric scooter maker Ather Energy has raised Rs 286 crore ($34 million) from its founders and Stride Ventures in a mix of debt and equity funding.
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| 31.05.2024 | Ather To Raise INR 286.5 Cr In Equity & Debt, Cofounders To Infuse INR 86.5 Cr | SUMMARY
Ather’s board approved a proposal to raise an equity capital of INR 86.6 Cr from its founders Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain – by issuing 74,148 Series F CCPS
Additionally, the electric two-wheeler startup’s board also approved raisin... |
| 28.05.2024 | Bottomline: Stride Ventures founders' NBFC StrideOne grows AUM, plans fresh fundraise | Premium
Ishpreet Singh Gandhi, founder and managing partner, Stride Ventures
Stride One Capital Pvt. Ltd, a non-banking financial company (NBFC) set up by the founding members of venture debt firm Stride Ventures, has recorded strong growth... |
| 01.05.2024 | Stride Ventures Closes Its Third Fund at USD 165 Mn Through its sector-agnostic venture debt fund, Stride Ventures claims to meet the capital needs of the Indian startup ecosystem, with a portfolio of... | - |
| 01.05.2024 | Stride Ventures Closes Fund III At $165 Mn, Ready To Deploy Dry Powder Across Sectors | SUMMARY
The fund aims to back startups across consumer brands, financial services and cleantech sectors
The Fund III portfolio already comprises names like BlueStone, Moneyview, Moove, Foxtale, CureSkin, NewMe, and Nat Habit
The first close... |
| 24.04.2024 | LetsTransport bags $22 Mn in Series E led by Bertelsmann | LetsTransport, a trucking aggregator for enterprises, has raised $22 million in its Series E funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments. Rebright Partners, NB Ventures, ALES Global, Stride Ventures, CAC Capital, and others also part... |
| 06.03.2024 | French startup Bene Bono bags €10M to combat food waste; here’s how | Read this article in:
Paris-based Bene Bono, a startup rescuing aesthetically rejected organic produce by major supermarkets, announced via a LinkedIn post that it has secured €10M in a fresh round of funding.
The investment came from AVP (... |
| 03.07.2023 | Lina Zakarauskaite is elevated from principal to partner at London’s Stride VC | London-based VC Stride has appointed Lina Zakarauskaite, formerly a principal at the firm, as its newest partner. The move follows the departure of partner Cleo Sham a month ago to pursue new ventures.
Zakarauskaite joined Stride in October... |
| 25.06.2023 | London-based mental health and wellbeing platform Olivia raises €5 million | UK-based mental health and wellbeing platform Oliva raised €5 million in a round led by Molten Ventures and includes existing investors Stride VC and new backers Alumni Ventures, with angel investors including Kieran Flanagan CMO at Zapier.... |
| 05.05.2023 | Tech.eu Summit 2023 Gathers Europe’s Top Tech Founders, VCs, and Officials | Tech.eu calls Europe’s tech startup ecosystem representatives to its Tech.eu Summit 2023 The one-day event is once again tightly packed with an expansive list of top speakers: from founders and VCs to high-ranking officials and policymakers... |
| 20.04.2023 | UK’s fintech startup Triver raises €7.9M to provide SMEs with instant working capital | London-based Triver, a fintech company that provides small businesses with instant capital, announced that it has secured £7M (nearly €7.95M) in a new round of funding led by Stride, a company whose team has backed businesses such as Delive... |
| 13.03.2023 | UK tech ecosystem reacts to the news of SVB UK’s acquisition by HSBC | U.K. tech founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders have been giving their reactions to the news that SVB UK will be rescued by HSBC. The bank purchased the operation for a nominal £1 overnight, averting insolvency proceedings that were du... |
| 07.12.2022 | VC Picus Capital unleashes a new vehicle with its eye on making crypto and Web3 wins post-FTX | German Picus Capital is announcing a new investment unit with remit to back crypto and Web3 businesses, and it believes it can surprise those foreseeing a "crypto-downfall" with sound scaling up practice in the digital assets spac... |
| 08.09.2022 | Qargo flexes up with $6 million to make road freight more efficient | Road transport is critical to European trade as it supports the entire continent’s consumption, construction and commercial activity. Yet, the transport sector is a woefully inefficient industry that suffers from ineffective scheduling, an ... |
| 24.05.2022 | Knowunity books €10 million, cries, “Hey, teachers, leave those kids alone!” | Berlin-based Knowunity has raised €10 million in a Series A round co-led by Redalpine and Stride. Existing investors including Project A and the founders of Booking.com and Preply, as well as World Cup-winning footballer Mario Götze also pa... |
| 17.05.2022 | European innovation takes centre stage as Tech EU Summit kicks off in Brussels | The Brussels Expo was buzzing today, as the maiden #TechEUSummit got off to a flying start. Over 1,000 founders, investors, and experts gathering to share ideas and knowledge on how to shape a sustainable future for European innovation ecos... |
| 10.05.2022 | Belgian HR platform TechWolf notches €10 million to build real-time skill insights | Belgian tech will take centre stage next week at our Tech.eu Summit in Brussels on 17 May. Adding more sheen to the Belgian tech landscape this week is Ghent-based HR tech platform TechWolf, which has raised €10 million in funding.
The Seri... |
| 05.04.2022 | Oliva cierra una ronda de €5,76M liderada por Stride VC. Acude también Moonfire | 05/04/2022
OLIVA CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €5,76 MILLONES LIDERADA POR STRIDE VC. ACUDE TAMBIÉN MOONFIRE.
Oliva ha cerrado una ronda de €5,76 millones liderada por la firma de capital riesgo (venture capital) londinense Stride VC, y a la que ta... |
| 31.03.2022 | Web3-based football management game Footium scores $3.35 million | For every champion, there will always be a challenger. While Football Manager is perhaps the best and most well-known in the genre, Footium is blowing the whistle, raising a yellow card, and offering football fans an alternative option.
By ... |
| 24.03.2022 | UK Startup Oliva Raises $6.3M for Workplace Mental Health Platform | Oliva Co-Founders Javier Suarez and Sançar Şahin
What You Should Know:
– Oliva, a London-based workplace mental health platform announced it has raised $6.3M (£4.84M) in seed funding led by Stride VC, a seed-stage VC firm based in London, a... |
| 08.03.2022 | UK fintech startup swipes £4 million to help SMEs solve cash flow struggles | Taking on manual processes and poor cash flow management that impact SMEs adversely, London-based fintech startup Kolleno has attracted £4 million ($5.4 million) funding. The seed round was led by Eurazeo and Stride.VC, with participation f... |
| 08.11.2021 | El fondo británico StrideVC ultima una inversión de €5M en la startup catalana Cleverea | 08/11/2021
EL FONDO BRITÁNICO STRIDEVC ULTIMA UNA INVERSIÓN DE €5 MILLONES EN LA STARTUP CATALANA CLEVEREA.
El fondo de capital riesgo británico StrideVC ultima realizar una inversión de €5 millones en la startup catalana Cleverea, con la... |
| 14.07.2021 | Gig economy insurance and benefits provider Collective Benefits benefits from £6 million raise | London’s insurtech Collective Benefits has raised £6 million in a new funding round. The startup plans to further expand across Europe, double the team size, and add new products and services to its roster. To date, the firm has raised £9.3... |
| 07.07.2021 | Peer-to-peer university recruitment platform Unibuddy raises $20 million | It’s been a while since my university and post-grad days, but I can quite vividly remember the selection process. “Do they have this? Is there a course on this? What’s a typical day of classes like?” Oh to have a service such as Unibuddy on... |
| 04.05.2021 | London’s Stride VC raised second $138.6M seed fund, hunts for third partner | Stride VC, a London-based seed investment fund, has raised its second fund, which will be £100 million ($138.6 million) — identical to its first fund. The fund will invest primarily in London startups but also look at select European opport... |
| 26.08.2020 | Stride.VC loses partner Pia d’Iribarne | Stride.VC, the London early-stage VC firm founded by Fred Destin and podcaster Harry Stebbings, is losing Paris-based partner Pia d’Iribarne, TechCrunch has learned.
According to a regulatory filing, d’Iribarne’s partnership officially ende... |
| 17.07.2020 | From Twenty Minute VC to 20VC, Harry Stebbings launches a micro VC off the back of his popular podcast | Podcasts are becoming big business — in part because of how well they can attract and keep audiences at a time when so many other media formats are finding it hard to pin down that elusive metric of engagement. Now a podcast host who has bu... |
| 27.04.2020 | Tech.eu Podcast #166: Fred Destin (Stride) on VC’s role in crisis; Richard Muirhead (Fabric) on governmental support for startups | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
This episode of Tech.eu... |
| 25.02.2020 | Insurance platform Collective Benefits raises £3.3M to give gig economy workers a safety net | The famous phrase “software eats the world” was originally coined to describe how technology gradually replaces the old industrial norms of production. But few realized that when Uber started to “eat” the taxi industry it would also be amon... |
| 06.01.2020 | These 10 promising VCs in Europe aim to transform tech ecosystem in 2020 | For early-stage startups, it is important to secure funding and support from venture capital investors. This can be a make-or-break point for the startups that are in the nascent stages. This makes it important to find the right VCs to back... |
| 15.01.2019 | Pia d’Iribarne joins Stride.VC as third partner | It turns out Stride.VC isn’t going to focus exclusively on the U.K. after all. Pia d’Iribarne is leaving Accel to join Stride.VC as a partner.
Stride.VC was originally co-founded by former Accel partner Fred Destin along with Harry Stebbing... |
| 15.10.2018 | It’s official: London-based Stride.VC raises £50M seed fund | Stride.VC, the new VC fund from Fred Destin, formerly a partner at Accel, and Harry Stebbings, producer of the “The Twenty Minute VC” podcast and ex-Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Atomico, is being officially unveiled today, confirming most o... |
| 05.10.2018 | Forward Health, the healthcare messaging app, scores $3.9M led by Stride.VC | Forward Health, the U.K. startup that has built an app to help healthcare professionals communicate in a secure and compliant way, has picked up $3.9 million in seed funding.
Leading the round is Stride.VC, the new VC fund from Fred Destin,... |
| - | Sessions taps $4.5 million to help companies to digitally engage with customers in meaningful interactions | The video conferencing and collaboration needs of companies have grown and evolved in the past years and yet tools have remained virtually the same.
Attempting to change this, Bucharest-based communication and collaboration platform that up... |
| - | Gig economy insurance and benefits provider Collective Benefits benefits from £6 million raise | London’s insurtech Collective Benefits has raised £6 million in a new funding round. The startup plans to further expand across Europe, double the team size, and add new products and services to its roster. To date, the firm has raised £9.3... |
| - | In the war for talent, Hofy helps companies compete with home delivery of office equipment, nets $15.2 million | London-based Hofy has raised $15.2 million in funding and as of today officially emerges from stealth mode. The startup provides high-growth companies, i.e. those with headcounts ranging from 50 to over 1,000 employees, a quick and easy way... |
| - | Tying all the loose ends together, Cord raises $17.5 million | Cord, the London-based platform that acts as the connecting bridge between any and all apps, has raised $17.5 million in a new funding round led by Index Ventures. The single line of javascript API allows businesses of any size the opportun... |
| - | WeGift Closes $12 Million Series A+ Round | Commerzbank-backed VC Fund CommerzVentures Joins Round, Strengthening FinTech Ties
LONDON, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- WeGift closes additional financing in $12 million funding round and welcomes new investor CommerzVentures, the FinTech... |
| - | Belgian HR platform TechWolf notches €10 million to build real-time skill insights | Belgian tech will take centre stage next week at our Tech.eu Summit in Brussels on 17 May. Adding more sheen to the Belgian tech landscape this week is Ghent-based HR tech platform TechWolf, which has raised €10 million in funding.
The Seri... |
| - | Meet Hors Normes, the French e-grocery store gobbles €7 million for reducing food wastage | Waging a war against food wastage in France and Europe, French anti-food waste startup Hors Normes has raised €7 million from Project A and Stride to save ‘rejected’ fruit and vegetables and deliver directly to customers.
With this new fund... |
| - | Knowunity books €10 million, cries, “Hey, teachers, leave those kids alone!” | Berlin-based Knowunity has raised €10 million in a Series A round co-led by Redalpine and Stride. Existing investors including Project A and the founders of Booking.com and Preply, as well as World Cup-winning footballer Mario Götze also pa... |
| - | E-commerce fulfillment provider Huboo raises £60 million | Bristol-based e-commerce fulfillment platform Huboo has raised £60 million in a Series B round. This healthy dose of dosh adds on to the £14 million the startup brought home last year in their Series A round. This newest round is expected t... |
| - | UK fintech startup swipes £4 million to help SMEs solve cash flow struggles | Taking on manual processes and poor cash flow management that impact SMEs adversely, London-based fintech startup Kolleno has attracted £4 million ($5.4 million) funding. The seed round was led by Eurazeo and Stride.VC, with participation f... |
| - | Web3-based football management game Footium scores $3.35 million | For every champion, there will always be a challenger. While Football Manager is perhaps the best and most well-known in the genre, Footium is blowing the whistle, raising a yellow card, and offering football fans an alternative option.
By ... |
| - | Peer-to-peer university recruitment platform Unibuddy raises $20 million | It’s been a while since my university and post-grad days, but I can quite vividly remember the selection process. “Do they have this? Is there a course on this? What’s a typical day of classes like?” Oh to have a service such as Unibuddy on... |
| - | European innovation takes centre stage as Tech EU Summit kicks off in Brussels | The Brussels Expo was buzzing today, as the maiden #TechEUSummit got off to a flying start. Over 1,000 founders, investors, and experts gathering to share ideas and knowledge on how to shape a sustainable future for European innovation ecos... |
